Mapping Immigrant America

Themes to explore

• Diversification
• Dispersal
• Suburbanization

Diversification

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago

Immigrants in Chicago since 1920

Dispersal

The immigrant gateway

Traditional immigrant gateways

New immigrant gateways

Refugee migration, 2014

Minneapolis-St. Paul

Minneapolis

St. Paul

Suburbanization

Immigration in the South

Washington, DC

Local response

US immigration: prospects

Contact

• Email: kyle.walker@tcu.edu
• Web: http://personal.tcu.edu/kylewalker
• Twitter: @kyle_e_walker

Credits

• “Mapping Immigrant America”: Data from NHGIS; tiles from Mapbox, © OpenStreetMap contributors. Direct link: http://personal.tcu.edu/kylewalker/immigrant-america.
  
• Chicago streamgraph (slide 8): Data from NHGIS; visualization built with the streamgraph R package by Bob Rudis (https://github.com/hrbrmstr/streamgraph).
  
• Gateway charts (slides 11 and 12): Data from NHGIS; visualization built with Taucharts via the taucharts R package by Bob Rudis and Kenton Russell (https://github.com/hrbrmstr/taucharts)
• Refugee flow diagram (slide 13): Data from the Office of Refugee Resettlement; visualization built with the networkD3 R package by Chris Gandrud and JJ Allaire (https://christophergandrud.github.io/networkD3/)
• Metro visualizations (slides 20-26): Data from NHGIS; visualizations built with the ggplot2 R package by Hadley Wickham (http://ggplot2.org/)

Code used to produce this presentation is available at https://github.com/walkerke/oldred.